Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own

understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your

paths straight.

What is the Wisest Choice?

In light of My:

Past

Present

Future

What Keeps us from Making

The Wisest Choice?

Emotion- Positive/Negative

Expectations- False Pressure

Experience- Lacking or Bad

What Allows Wise People to Make

The Wisest Choice?

Wise People Know Their Own Limitations

“They Know

What They Don’t

KNOW”

Genesis 41

Pharaoh Receives Joseph’s Advice

We’ll Never Arrive at a Place Where

We Don’t Need To Seek Wise Counsel

You Will Never Be all God Created

You To Be without Wise Counsel

Wise Counsel Can Come

from Unlikely Sources

Proverbs 28:26 (NIV) He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in

wisdom is kept safe.

Proverbs 15:22 (NIV)

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with

many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 19:20 (NIV)

Listen to advice and accept instruction,

and in the end you will be wise.

1 Kings 12

Rehoboam Refuses Recommendation

Self Will Set You Back

• Won’t Ask

• Will Seek its Own – Build Up Your “Case”

– Ask Only “Favorable” People

Proverbs 15:12 (NIV) A mocker resents

correction; he will not consult the wise.

Proverbs 26:12 (NIV) Do you see a man

wise in his own eyes? There is more hope

for a fool than for him.

Others May Overpower

• What They Want Will Win

• Don’t Ask a Hothead, Critical Person or Fool

• Don’t Ask a Person Who is not On The Path of the Wise

Proverbs 27:9 (NIV) Perfume and incense

bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness

of one's friend springs from his earnest

counsel.

Proverbs 13:20 (NIV) He who walks with the

wise grows wise, but a companion of fools

suffers harm.

The Power of Wise Asking

• Ask Several

• Give Permission for Truth

• Ask, “What Does God’s Word Say”

• Ask, “What Would Be Wisest”

Colossians 3:15-17 (NIV)

15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your

hearts, since as members of one body you

were called to peace. And be thankful. 16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as

you teach and admonish one another with

all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns

and spiritual songs with gratitude in your

hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do,

whether in word or deed, do it all in the

name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to

God the Father through him.

The Preparation of the Wise

• Ask God for Wisdom

• Look into God’s Word

• Live in Fellowship with Others

• Live for God’s Glory